It didn't start with Twitter — and it won't end with Weiner.
For centuries, the theme of sexual sins committed by the powerful has been scintillating source material for the arts. In poems and plays, in novels and films and TV series, artists...

Only through a poet’s verse do we understand what happened the first Christmas night. John Milton’s poem, “The Hymn,” paints a picture of what must have been.
“… No war, or battle's sound, was heard the world around;¿...

How many times have you heard or read a rant about what the Founding Fathers "really" said? Now you can find out for yourself -- in their own words -- on Sacred Texts.
This gold mine of a website, housed at the University of Virginia, stocks such...

The problem: A bus stop in Homeland has been missing for months.
The backstory: Tyler Corkum has exhibited patience that one might not expect from a college student.
The rising Drexel University sophomore contacted Watchdog in May about a missing bus...

Robert B. Reich brings new meaning to the phrase "hope springs eternal" when he writes that the "regressive right wing of American politics" might ignite a new era of liberalism ("The regressive right-wing reawakens a progressive America," Oct. 20).
Lets just hope the "regressive right wing" does not usher in a new era of "progressive regression."
John Milton Wesley, Columbia

Sometimes a single image just won't do. Printmakers often work in a series, enabling them to literally explore variations with their subject matter and technique.
The Baltimore Museum of Art exhibit "Print By Print: Series from Durer to Lichtenstein" showcases such print series done between the 15th century and the present day. Whether lined up along the wall or arranged in grids, the 300 exhibited prints will keep your eyes moving along.
The serial format is especially appropriate for printmakers who...

Sunday, June 24
Jazz in the Village Author-singer-songwriter John Milton Wesley appears for a live performance for the first time since 1976 at 6 p.m. at Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, 5885 Robert Oliver Place in Columbia. Free. Information: 410-730-4610.
Tuesday, June 26
School news The Board of Education will hold a regularly scheduled meeting at 4 p.m. in the Board Room at 10910 Route 108 in Ellicott City. Both the afternoon and evening session at 7:30 begin with a "public forum," when members...

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We've been hearing a lot about marriage lately from celibate clergy and other experts, so I thought that a layman's prspective might be of interest.
Much of the talk keeps returning to procreation as the fundamental component of marriage, presumably because of the "be fruitful and multiply" injunction in the Creation story, though neither the church nor the state objects to the marriage of people who are past childbearing age, or unable to bear children, or uninterested in bearing children.
But...